Organized Labor

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Every week, one labor story told for Instagram and archived here in full. Swipeable on the feed. Readable in full on the site.

2026-W17
Why Overtime Pay Exists
Overtime pay isn't a bonus. It's a fine levied against employers for trying to work you past forty hours a week, and it exists because working people fought for fifty years to make it expensive to kill them.